Word: mackerel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lindsay Crawford, representing the Irish Free State, said that a determined effort was to be made against calling any product "Irish" that was not made in Ireland. The effort, he continued, is to be directed against those who sell "Irish" poplin, mackerel, butter and other products...
Consider the salmon. He. ranks fourth?next to mackerel, a high-seas fish?and would by this time have been driven from the Atlantic Coast except for artificial propagation. For the salmon must come to life in a trough excavated by his parent in the gravelly bed of a river. Thence he makes his way to the ocean and returns, steel blue, to increase his tribe. If estuaries are foul and filled with commerce, the salmon expires...
...Square miles of water, colored purple by hosts of jellyfish; hundreds of paper nautili, attached to one another in long strings; transparent flounders with lacy fins; deep-sea mackerel flashing blue and yellow lights...
...inwardly. Thus, of the nouveaux riches: "They may spend their money giving fetes, parties, balls, and use every device to get into society, or what is left of it, but all their doings will only be a sham. You cannot make a silk purse out of a soused mackerel, neither will they command the same respect." Which leaves the reader somewhat in doubt as to the object of the comparison-and the respect. A book quite without guile, absolutely without discretion, for the most part mildly amusing, on some few occasions, penetrating...